Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 142
I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn, and caught a wild boar, and am I to fear those who are standing outside the room.’
Who acts: I · What happens: kill, bring away, catch, fear, stand · To what, where: two giants, one unicorn, wild boar, those, room
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 giants | nummod |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 killed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 killed | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 unicorn | nummod |
| 10 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caught | cc |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 killed | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boar | det |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boar | amod |
| 16 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fear | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fear | cc |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fear | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fear | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fear | mark |
| 22 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 killed | parataxis |
| 23 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 fear | obj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 standing | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 standing | aux |
| 26 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 those | acl:relcl |
| 27 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 29 room | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 room | det |
| 29 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 standing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 fear | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | I | two giants | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring away | past | I | one unicorn | away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument unicorn=Destination | |||
| 3 | catch | past | I not said here | a wild boar | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fear | present | I | those | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stand | present · progressive | the room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside room=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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